Nah. He's one of those aforementioned easily identified crazies. He's sometimes lucid, and can be fun to talk to when he is, but when the crazy starts, it is pretty obvious and easily skipped.

I think that she means that at least hate/homophobic speech whould deserve suspensions or bans, but not much of the rest.

Because of [attached].

I used to be against moderation here too. But eventually stuff like this changed my mind. Some lines need be drawn. I'm talking about something very basic- no death threats, no advocating murder and violence. So far GOG made sure we can't say "fuck" in capital letters, but we can still say that all the filthy jews/feminists/muslims/etc. should be put in gas chambers. I think there is something wrong with that picture.

And open myself up to being labelled and serial down voting? See above about my strategy! ;)

Well, I've been chatting with Zeo, and we do seem to be in permanent disagreement, so I'll share two cautionary tales I was reminded of & I'll ask him to share his opinion at length. Then whoever at GOG is stuck with reading all this tripe can quit his job & go somewhere that's more worthy of his time.

I was at the Telltale Forums right from the get go & it was a pleasant enough community. Eventually, as these things go, one or two posters got restless & volunteer mods came to be. It went to shit faster than Tiffany Mynx taking a laxative after eating a burrito or two.

The second is The Tale of Sapience and The Lord of the Rings Online, a paid Community Manager that went on a very bad power trip & got himself a handful of mentally disabled sheep which proceeded to raze the forums, getting rid of anyone who didn't bow down before the girth of Almighty Sapience. Needless to say, those people quit the game too. I think the game was at a historic player low, then. It seemed to have gotten better after Sap went off on a Grand New Adventure in Fuckit Idontcare.

So if you want to moderate your forums, please pay very close attention to who you're getting. No Social Justice Retards, please. You know what those people do to whatever it is they touch. They always "know better" & have "many ideas to improve what's obviously wrong".

Cloak and dagger, you dummy!

Hey, I'm guest starring in one of those! And you just reminded me of infinite9 and I really, really was trying hard to forget about that puke.

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Oh ok banning people saying death threats or crap like that then I'm ok with.

Ban those CALL-1-800-INDIA-GIRLS spambots too while at it agreed?

Starmaker?!?

Also, you miss many users. :P

I know. But, hard as it may be to believe, I don't watch all the threads 24/7 :D And I don't always remember to take a screenshot for evidence.

Goes without saying. Though spam like that at least is usually disposed of.

The way I see it, any "jokes" that are at the expense of other people or groups of people have crossed the line and are hate speech rather than just silly.

You can have good fun without having to do so at the expense of others.

Ok ok, it was just a joke, don't get defensive. :P
Anyway, some were facepalm masterpieces.

Well, if you're a good judge of character, then you're good to go. I know some people have the knack, but most don't, which is why I was giving you some advice that you can obviously disregard.

You'll have to forgive me, it's hard to know if people are talking about *real* issues or if they're just being oversensitive as is mostly the case these days. From what I understand, there ARE real issues where you work, especially if it requires the involvement of police. Since that is the case, I say you're dealing with those issues correctly. Reporting those people to the authorities is the best course of action.

It's one thing to toss a slur - it's another thing to threaten or otherwise mistreat someone based on or regardless of their race and/or sex.